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Questions tagged [international]

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How do I type the ligature œ into the international keyboard

I'm using the international keyboard to type in diacritics and accents (for French). I can type just about everything except the ligature œ. Does anyone know how to do this in the international keyboard without using the alt code? á é í ó ú ç…
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Is there a US International keyboard layout on Linux that mimics Windows' behavior?

I am used to using US International as my keyboard layout. However, the implementation appears to differ greatly between Windows and Linux (Gnome, in my case – may well be a GTK issue since GTK behaves the same on Windows). The layout uses dead…
Joey
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How can I get zsh to display international characters properly?

I just started using zsh, and love it. However, I've stumbled upon an annoyance when it comes to international characters: ➜ ~ touch åäö.txt ➜ ~ ls Desktop Dropbox Music …
Morgan
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`us altgr-intl` layout on Windows 10

Is there a US international keyboard layout variant for Windows 10 that behaves like altgr-intl on Linux? That is, if I press ' the single quote appears on-screen immediately (no deadkey), and if I want to type é I need to press Alt Gr+' followed by…
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Is the macOS Terminal only ever in English?

In Windows, string parsing in the command-line is a crapshoot, both for Batch and PowerShell. Essential command-line tools like fsutil and dcdiag return their output in strings which are internationalised to the language of the OS installation,…
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Function names in international versions of Excel

I'm writing documentation about how to use Excel functions in a rather company-specific context for novice users. I noticed that the functions seem to have completely different names in non-English versions of Excel, eg. the SUM() function is called…
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How to disable inputing characters like ãâà by default in OS X? I just want to simply type ~^`

Is there a solution for OS X 10.6? I don't find it in the system preferences.
Andy
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I can't type lower case Ñ or Ï in Windows 8

How do I type lower case Ñ or umlaut Ï in Windows 8? I have the US-International keyboard layout selected. When I try to type a lower case version of those letters (and possibly more), then it fails. In Notepad, it just prints a plain lowercase 'n'.…
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Enable channel 13 for American Intel WiFi Link 4695AGN

A friend of mine recently moved from the States. Problem is, he can't connect to our WiFi network. Ours is on channel 13 since Channels 1, 6 and 11 (the only other separate channels available) are overcrowded. However due to channel 13 being…
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Is there such a thing as 'Korean Microsoft Windows 10' or is it just regular Windows preconfigured to Korean language, fonts etc?

I have a Korean client who has a display issue using our software, and I'm having no success reproducing his issue on my PC, even after changing multiple settings to make my PC as Korean as possible. Just wondering if the problem is that he bought…
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Date format worldwide in Excel

On a Mac Mountain Lion, US locales, I'm working on a Spreadsheet with macros like TEXT(TODAY(), "yyyy-mm-dd")&" is the date" The problem is that the sheet is also used on computers set with French locale, where the macro expects TEXT(TODAY(),…
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Why would a new EC2 East instance take me to www.google.com.tw?

I set up an EC2 instance in the U.S. East (N. Virginia) region. It's a Windows Server 2012 instance, and the very first time I visited Google in Internet Explorer, I got redirected to google.com.tw. Why would this be? I checked the IP address, and…
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Will an Australian power adapter with an American plug charge a Laptop safely?

A friend of mine has a laptop that she brought from Egypt to America, and she is afraid to charge it. She told me the laptop was purchased in Australia and it has a plug like this: And the other end of the part that plus into the power brick…
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To get International Dvorak for Snow Leopard

How can you have International Dvorak for Snow Leopard? I need A with dots dot O with dots for Dvorak. OS X has four types of Dvoraks, but none of them is Dvorak International like in Debian and many other Linux and BSD distros.
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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On a Thai Windows 10 install, do Thai filenames work in the command prompt?

The Windows command prompt uses fixed width fonts. This is fine for most western languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. But for some languages fixed width fonts are not really possible in the same way. Windows is still distributed in…
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